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CEP discussion paper
The Effect of Information and Communication Technologies on Urban Structure

The geographic concentration of economic activity occurs because transport costs for goods, people and ideas give individuals and organisations incentives to locate close to each other. Historically, all of these costs h...Read more...

Y Ioannides, Henry G. Overman, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg and Kurt Schmidheiny

July 2007

CEP discussion paper
Zipfs Law for Cities: An Empirical Examination

We use data for metro areas in the United States, from the US Census for 1900 u 1990, to test the validity of Zipf's Law for cities. Previous investigations are restricted to regressions of log size against log rank. In...Read more...

Y Ioannides and Henry G. Overman

November 2000

CEP discussion paper
Cross Sectional Evolution of the US City Size Distribution

We report nonparametrically estimated stochastic transition kernels for the evolution of the distribution of US metropolitan area populations, for the period 1900 to 1990. These suggest a fair amount of uniformity in the...Read more...

Y Ioannides and Henry G. Overman

November 2000

CEP discussion paper
Spatial Evolution of the US Urban System

We test implications of economic geography models for location, size and growth of cities with US Census data for 1900 u 1990. Our tests involve non-parametric estimations of stochastic kernels for the distributions of c...Read more...

Y Ioannides and Henry G. Overman

November 2000

CEP discussion paper
Unemployment and Liquidity Constraints

In this paper we propose a modelling approach for labor supply and consumption decisions that is firmly grounded within a utility maximizing framework and allows for a role of such institutional constraints as limited ac...Read more...

V A Hajivassiliou and Y Ioannides

May 1995

CEP discussion paper
Strategic Games Modles of Economic Integration

We set up two country games to express strategic aspects of economic integration, where integration requires overcoming fixed costs in the form of a vector of resources, the two countries' agents' characteristics are d...Read more...

H Haller and Y Ioannides

May 1995

CEP discussion paper
Monetary Union or Else?

We analyze a strategic game where in a first step, a country can adopt another country's currency. In a second step, thee two countries commit resources to economic integration. A common currency reduces the overall res...Read more...

H Haller and Y Ioannides

May 1995